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CBO scored how Medicare drug price negotiation in the IRA would affect development of novel therapies (13 fewer drugs over the next 30 years). I wonder how they — if they — would score the impact of this decimation of the NIH and the general U.S. scientific enterprise.

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Let it be noted that the Democratic politician with as much proven crossover appeal as any in the country has done it while making a point of not giving in to the resegregators and transphobes.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

The good news is that there are people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

submitted 4 days ago • 1223 comments

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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 4 days ago • 431 comments

I'm sure this isn't a novel observation, but it just struck me that the thesis of those pop-science books about how the world is naturally getting better (so we shouldn't stress too much about fixing things) is the inverse of Gramscian "Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will" creedo.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

a better world is possible

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

This is going to keep escalating to see what they can get away with

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SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments

Remember last time Trump was president and unmarked vans swept up people off the street and he tried to get the military to use force against protesters? If you think the administration's vindictive defiance will stop with immigrants, you're naive. Gift link: wapo.st/43Ssl2Q

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

It took detaining a white Canadian woman for the public to get a glimpse into ICE detention. The stories she tells—of her dehumanizing experience & that of so many other women—are horrifying. This is America. Not new to this administration, just ramped up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is like that joke about the guy who jumps off the 20th floor of a building and as he passes the 12th floor says “So far so good…”

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 5 days ago • 190 comments

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

submitted 8 days ago • 1417 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Either you think passing the bill is good or bad. But these Senators think their voters, volunteers and donors are very gullible.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

The “Laken Riley Act” would have been another good one to block

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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"Air pollution, emissions and greenhouse gases are serious public health issues that will continue to harm communities across the U.S. if these lifesaving rules and regulations are eliminated or weakened." apha.org/news-and-med...

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Two forces that are beyond the control of team Trump & fossil fuel execs - physics (the planet is heating up), & economics (clean energy transition is unstoppable) These men can "try and beat reality into submission. But reality has a way of biting back" billmckibben.substack.com/p/trying-the...

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TODAY'S TOP TARGETS. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

This article is more than a month old. I'm not necessarily endorsing it, but reading it with fresh eyes this morning. newrepublic.com/article/1909...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 10 days ago • 5261 comments

Here's my update on the government funding fight. Trump and the GOP are shoving right in the face of Democrats that they'll ignore any funding bill and hack away at spending anyway. At least some Dems have figured that out, we'll see if it's enough. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Happening now at Trump Tower, activists w/ @jvp.bsky.social calling for release of Mahmoud Khalil @thecity.nyc

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

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In my opinion the biggest missed opportunity from the COVID crisis was that we didn't massively invest in clean air in schools, churches, offices, govt buildings, community centers, etc.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: please do not any conflate opposition to a Canada takeover with opposition to a 51st state, a cause many in the DC metro area - including myself - deeply believe in

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The measles vaccine is safe and effective. Exposing unvaccinated children to measles will hospitalize & kill many children. Nothing RFK is saying holds up to the slightest bit of scrutiny, it is nonsense. Please vaccinate your kids to protect them from serious illness.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

Where I live, two elementary school kids just died of the flu & dozens more or sick. Measles is nearly 15x more infectious than seasonal flu & is deadlier if you do catch it. Measles deaths are 100% preventable because we have an effective, safe vaccine. Undermining vaccines kills children.

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